I applied the patch for vertical divisions in Screen, and made a pet (my first one). Tested in 4.3.1.

The preassigned key to create a vertical division is ctrl+a and then V (caps+v).

There seems to be a minor flaw, for Vim users: you can use Vim screens that have been opened in full screen, and then create divisions and navigate between them without problems. But if you open Vim from console within a divided screen (typing 'vim enter'), it will greedily open full screen, screwing divisions and creating further disarrangement. Nothing serious, you can redo the existing divisions and everything will be ok again, but it is a bit of a fuzz until you discover it.

I don't know if there is much intersection between those who use Screen and those who do not know how to apply a patch, but I was one of them until very recently, so I thought maybe it was worth to post this.

the difference is, that screen is a sort of windowmanager for the console, without running x. so in times when you don't want or can't (e.g. ssh-session on a server) screen or tmux are the way to go to easy have multible screens/windows/or whatever you call it. if you're running x, the benefits of screen are not that great, but if you're used to work this way, it's very handy to have everything in one terminal.

The best benefit of screen is to install it on systems that you remote into - like suppose you're a sysadmin patching a server.

You ssh into the server, start screen, then start your patching job. That way, if you lose your network connection, the patching job continues instead of being killed when you disconnect. Then you can reconnect later and resume where you left off. It's like remote desktop for the command line.

The only reason I even looked at screen, other than wanting to play with it for a bit, was the 'detach' feature... Then I found dtach - which eventually led me back to screen, because another very cool feature of screen is that it can emulate UTF-8 in a non-UTF8 enabled terminal! _________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

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